From the monthly archives: June 2012
Special to the Democrat by: John Zippert, Co-Publisher Over one hundred grantees, staff and friends of the Southern Partners Fund marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday, June 23 to protest Alabama’s HB 56 and HB 568 anti-immigration laws. The Southern Partners Fund (SPF) is an Atlanta based foundation, owned [...]
The Greene County Commission held an emergency meeting on Monday, June 25 at 3 p.m. They were facing two problems that needed to be solved. One was the need for a accounts payable clerk. Since the death of Vivica Spencer, other employees have tried to fill in on her job, but according to CFO Paula [...]
Despite an earlier ruling by a local subcommittee of the Alabama Democratic Party, the state committee has ruled that Arthur Crawford will be the party’s candidate for Probate Judge of Hale County in the November election. He will face a Republican nominee, in the November 6 General Election. Crawford won the April run-off [...]
Representatives from more than 25 statewide organizations will gather in Montgomery to strengthen a coalition and solidify strategies for addressing laws and practices in Alabama that are designed to deny and deprive individuals and groups of their civil and human rights. The Save Ourselves Summit II is scheduled for Saturday, June 30, 2012 beginning at [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network May 29 (GIN) – Nigeria’s long-awaited oil reform bill is a Christmas stocking stuffed with goodies for the multinational oil companies who have been feasting for years on the nation’s rich supply of crude oil. Provisions that would have forced the government to publish how much [...]
By Joshunda Sanders, Special to the NNPA News Service from America’s Wire NEW YORK (NNPA) — By fall, an organization known as BlocPower will be helping minority churches, nonprofits and small businesses nationwide reduce their energy bills with retrofit construction projects that also create jobs in communities of color. Another organization, Visible [...]
By Freddie Allen, NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – It was a reunion of sorts. The presidents of seven Black colleges met Black newspaper publishers for a breakfast consisting of French toast, eggs and bacon. The setting was the annual convention of the National Newspaper Publishers Association here. And the goal was [...]
On Tuesday, June 19th, the Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of New Orleans’ Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, was elected as the first Black president of the 16-million-member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) during their annual meeting in New Orleans. The two-day annual meeting’s theme was “Jesus: To the neighborhood and the nations.”The previous SBC president [...]
By Julie Pace (AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is ramping up a fresh phase of his re-election bid with a bus tour next week, focusing more on direct engagement with voters and less on ritzy fundraisers. Obama’s two-day road trip through Pennsylvania and Ohio, two key battleground states in the [...]
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the main provision of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants but threw out three other parts, handing partial victories to President Barack Obama in his challenge to the law and to the measure’s conservative supporters.In an important test of whether federal or state governments have the power [...]
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